We started making the first adobe bricks.

2008-08-21

This week we started making the adobe bricks on a site at the feet of Zangla Palace that probably used to be the brickmaking place at the times of construction.

The other part of the team managed to clean the main entrance stairs from the debris accumulated in the last 30 years. The balcony above the entrance has collapsed as during the reparations conducted by local people in the last decades, they used stones instead of adobe brick on the top floors, and the construction quality was also poor. The stones are heavier than the adobe walls and put extra burden on the Eastern Facade of the Palace, that causes cracks and collapses.

The Gallery has been updated with the Sani festival pictures visited by the team last week. The buses were overcrowded, we had to sit on the roof. Some pictures of the brick-making and the main entrance and balcony clearance, besides some samples of the invaluable statue collection of the Zangla Palace Shrine.Next week we will suffer from lack of work force as the local labour will work on the fields for the harvesting.

On the 22 of August the prayer wheel prepared by the Kitchen Budapest media lab will set out for the long journey to Zangla. We plan to inaugurate the unique art object in the partially restored palace by the end of September.